Mastering Your Metablism by Jillian Michaels
Thanks Jerze for posting this, I wasn't aware that she had even written such a book. I copied this synopsis from a review and it sounds exactly like what I need for my sorry ass metabolism. I'm going to buy a copy tomorrow and see maybe if it's something Neecee needs, too.
Synopsis
Does it feel as if you’re fighting your body to lose even one pound—or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been there, too. So she consulted top experts in the field of metabolism and discovered that she’d inadvertently been abusing her endocrine system for years. After “fixing” her own metabolism, she decided to share what she learned by devising this simple, 3-phase plan that engages all the weight-loss hormones (including the friendly HGH, testosterone, DHEA; and the not-so-friendly: insulin, cortisol, and excess estrogen).
In Master Your Metabolism, discover how to:
•REMOVE “anti-nutrients” from your diet
•RESTORE foods that speak directly to fat-burning genes
•REBALANCE energy and your hormones for effortless weight loss
Michaels offers a wealth of information throughout, including: shopping lists and online shopping resources, hormone-trigger food charts, how to eat “power nutrient” foods on a budget, smart strategies for eating out, quick and easy recipes, as well as mini-programs for addressing PMS, andropause, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, and menopause.
Since I have four out of five of those last ailments listed, I need those mini-programs BAD!
Mary
I'll look for it. In general, i no longer buy new books, but I do make exceptions. I'll wait for it to come to the library or used section of Amazon!
I very much respect Jillian...her TV personanae aside, I think she is very much into the science of being fat!
I very much respect Jillian...her TV personanae aside, I think she is very much into the science of being fat!
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
I am home sick from work (severe bronchitis), couldn't stand any more bed rest, and spent the last 2 hours outside on a chair, getting some good ole Vitamin D from the sun and reading.
I'm maybe a third of the way through it. It's ultimately about our hormones impacting weight loss and what's creating that hormonal havoc--not everything you think it is, like aging and hormones being naturally off.
She talks a lot about our environment and choices and what endocrine-disruptors are created from everything like our Rxs, water supply, food containers, food "enhancers", etc. And then she gives a plan for changing those things (stuff she insists on at TBL ranch and changes she made in her own WOL
I've been doing okay on my WOL, though I struggled with carbs last few months, but am in the 250s now and mentally raring to go for the next 20 or 30 lbs I intend to lose this year. I've been trying to figure out my own carb level (I lost recently in spite of sugar and starches) and have been debating about modifying my plan. Hers is low carb, but not Atkins levels and only low GI carbs at that...
More reading to go before I modify. COuldn't hurt. All about exploring what's best for us individually.
I'm maybe a third of the way through it. It's ultimately about our hormones impacting weight loss and what's creating that hormonal havoc--not everything you think it is, like aging and hormones being naturally off.
She talks a lot about our environment and choices and what endocrine-disruptors are created from everything like our Rxs, water supply, food containers, food "enhancers", etc. And then she gives a plan for changing those things (stuff she insists on at TBL ranch and changes she made in her own WOL
I've been doing okay on my WOL, though I struggled with carbs last few months, but am in the 250s now and mentally raring to go for the next 20 or 30 lbs I intend to lose this year. I've been trying to figure out my own carb level (I lost recently in spite of sugar and starches) and have been debating about modifying my plan. Hers is low carb, but not Atkins levels and only low GI carbs at that...
More reading to go before I modify. COuldn't hurt. All about exploring what's best for us individually.
Well Jerze, I hope by now that you aren't sick anymore and back to your workout schedule.
I bought the book and just skimming through it so far, it's full of stuff that my homeopathic nurse practitioner who leveled my hormones advocates. So far it's nothing new for me, other than I like the way she says it better.
I'm telling you, this constantly adjusting carb levels can get to be a pain the bootosky! Of course I always hated the part when I ate too many and gained weight. But if you are eating more and still losing, it means that your insulin receptors are working better now due to the weight loss and exercise. You go girl!
Mary
I bought the book and just skimming through it so far, it's full of stuff that my homeopathic nurse practitioner who leveled my hormones advocates. So far it's nothing new for me, other than I like the way she says it better.
I'm telling you, this constantly adjusting carb levels can get to be a pain the bootosky! Of course I always hated the part when I ate too many and gained weight. But if you are eating more and still losing, it means that your insulin receptors are working better now due to the weight loss and exercise. You go girl!
Mary
I read about the "solution" to Mastering Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels, and I feel it is too extreme for my current lifestyle. I do not have time to exercise hardly five to seven days a week. When I walk outside for a few minutes, I have pain in my left leg/hip from just walking on the cement. I have to stop every few minutes and rest because of it. I am hardly a candidate for her regime, which sounds like something from Biggest Loser.
Also, I simply (for myself) do not believe in the low carb diet. I feel it is unbalanced, by almost cutting out a major food group, which I feel we all need, in moderation. And eating alot of fat doesn't sound very healthy to me. I don't believe the former scientists were wrong in saying that high saturated fat in the diet can lead to heart disease. My grandparents had a high fat diet, and my grandfather died of a heart attack at 76. He was constantly overweight too, from such a rich saturated fat diet, whi*****luded schmaltz (chicken fat). My grandmother prepared high-fat versions of everything - including her "rich" challah (Jewish bread). My grandmother had high blood pressure, obesity, and a host of other problems, too, including diabetes.
I know that adopting a certain lifestyle and eating habits will help some people. But I don't believe any one way of eating will help everybody. I got obese eating a high fat diet with alot of sugar. It's amazing that I don't have diabetes, but my mother & aunt developed a mild form of it, which they controlled through diet alone. They were lucky. My grandparents needed pills to control theirs, and my grandmother (who had alteimers disease) never did change her cooking at all. People eating high fat diets and obese are rampant in this country. A large part of this is eating fast food, which has alot of fat in it, as well as alot of salt and white flour.
I feel that eating whole grain carbs in moderation is just fine. I feel we need carbs to give us energy during the day. And I no longer feel fast weight loss is the answer to everything. I fell into that trap for years going on diet after diet after diet, only to gain it all back and more. Diets just don't work for me, which is why I am getting therapy for my eating disorder issues and going to OA to arrest my compulsive overeating, which I've had since I was eight years old, due to an emotional crisis of believing (erroneously) that my mother didn't want me from birth, because she didn't want to become pregnant again. I found out in just the last couple years (around 55) that the reason she didn't want to be pregnant with me was that she was afraid of bleeding to death, like she almost did during my sister's pregnancy. My grandmother's sister died of that kind of bleeding. But my believing she didn't want me really messed me up, and I reached for excess food to comfort and protect me from those awful feelings and that erroneous realization.
The kind of foods I reached for were high fat, high sugar, or high salt foods, like cookies, brownies, potato chips, etc. There is nothing remotely healthy about any of these foods. I recently read about a person on a gluten-free diet who was still eating candy bars, and losing weight. How healthy is that?
Denise Phares/kitties4
Also, I simply (for myself) do not believe in the low carb diet. I feel it is unbalanced, by almost cutting out a major food group, which I feel we all need, in moderation. And eating alot of fat doesn't sound very healthy to me. I don't believe the former scientists were wrong in saying that high saturated fat in the diet can lead to heart disease. My grandparents had a high fat diet, and my grandfather died of a heart attack at 76. He was constantly overweight too, from such a rich saturated fat diet, whi*****luded schmaltz (chicken fat). My grandmother prepared high-fat versions of everything - including her "rich" challah (Jewish bread). My grandmother had high blood pressure, obesity, and a host of other problems, too, including diabetes.
I know that adopting a certain lifestyle and eating habits will help some people. But I don't believe any one way of eating will help everybody. I got obese eating a high fat diet with alot of sugar. It's amazing that I don't have diabetes, but my mother & aunt developed a mild form of it, which they controlled through diet alone. They were lucky. My grandparents needed pills to control theirs, and my grandmother (who had alteimers disease) never did change her cooking at all. People eating high fat diets and obese are rampant in this country. A large part of this is eating fast food, which has alot of fat in it, as well as alot of salt and white flour.
I feel that eating whole grain carbs in moderation is just fine. I feel we need carbs to give us energy during the day. And I no longer feel fast weight loss is the answer to everything. I fell into that trap for years going on diet after diet after diet, only to gain it all back and more. Diets just don't work for me, which is why I am getting therapy for my eating disorder issues and going to OA to arrest my compulsive overeating, which I've had since I was eight years old, due to an emotional crisis of believing (erroneously) that my mother didn't want me from birth, because she didn't want to become pregnant again. I found out in just the last couple years (around 55) that the reason she didn't want to be pregnant with me was that she was afraid of bleeding to death, like she almost did during my sister's pregnancy. My grandmother's sister died of that kind of bleeding. But my believing she didn't want me really messed me up, and I reached for excess food to comfort and protect me from those awful feelings and that erroneous realization.
The kind of foods I reached for were high fat, high sugar, or high salt foods, like cookies, brownies, potato chips, etc. There is nothing remotely healthy about any of these foods. I recently read about a person on a gluten-free diet who was still eating candy bars, and losing weight. How healthy is that?
Denise Phares/kitties4
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